After effect camera position

Hi, i've asked a question yesterday, about animating line, like f1 intro, Rick Gerard has tought me, (i want to thanks him, because that thread was closed or i donnt know what happened with it) how to do it, but i have a little problem, with the cameras.
I cant make prespective view, the lines moves but nothin happen with the perspective.

Make sure you have active camera selected in the Composition window, then animate the camera position. Make sure you set one keyframe to start.

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